All the lights came on but they won't go off

Thanks for the help! Its crazy people have to search for this information.. should be part of the "troubleshooting" section of manual.

I guess they want you to pay some hack to come to our houses and save the day...

All, if you have the control on the top of the dishwasher, once all the lights come on, you have to shut the door and then it starts a cycle.

Great Site

I found this site quite awhile ago & have used the reset feature often.
Now the dishwasher shuts down every time it is used. 7 flashes of the green light.

How or where can I find more info on what needs repaired. It is obviously past just needing a reset everyday & something is now wrong. Is it just a heating elelment or thermister that I can change out?

Thanks, Mark

If it doesn't heat (or sense that the water is heated) up the water to the temperature expected, then it will error every time. If you watch the cycle, wait for it to error out, then open the dishwasher you can make the conclusion:
If the water in the tub is hot, then your heater is fine and it's your thermistor.
If the water is not hot, then it's your heating element.

It sounds like what ever it is, was going bad intermitently... now it's failed completely.

It worked great! Thank you for this great help.

I have done exactly as this site is advising... It's starting and getting reset but after trying to clean it stop and get back to the green light "clean"...
The water is heated, so, it should be another problem but I have not a clue wish one...
Please, any suggestions?
I have a Kenmore Elite. Ultrawash. Quiet Guard 7

WOW, 4 years later and this fix still works. Thank you so much for posting this, my machine was flashing Clean and wouldn't do anything and now it magically is running!

Just like you said, pushed alternating for three times and Wham! All the lights went on and off and it is washing now.

THANK YOU!
Heather

I should note our model was 665.1483 or some business like that (it's running now or I would look) but I pushed the normal wash, heated dry, normal wash, heated dry, normal wash, heated dry, in that order, just like that and now it's going! Good luck!

Reset using sequence of pressing buttons on control panel and found it to work, however, before normal wash cycle completed itself on first test run, the dishwasher reverted back to blinking clean light again. Is it possible that some glass or debris is caught in chopper. If so, how do I remove lower assembly to clean?

Goose14,

I also do still occasionally have the issue of the computer system getting confused even though I've reset it. I just reset the computer again with the normal wash/heated dry buttons, wait for it to start up again, then press the Cancel/Drain button. It will make a sound like it drains (but there is nothing to drain) and then I quickly press it again to shut it off. Typically if I give it a little time before just starting the cycle from the beginning again I have no issues and it gets through a whole wash.

One thing I did want to say though, in response to your question about glass was that YES, I did notice that our washer was NOT cleaning nearly as well as it did when we first got it. This issue happened around the same time that the computer panel started going nutty. I looked at the manual and it turns out for our model there are no removable filters to clean, so that was out.

However, I did solve the issue and now it's running GREAT. All I did, was what I figured a repair man would do: took out the drawers, removed the parts screwed into the washer that spray the water (the arm running along the back and top and the bottom spinner), then used a star screwdriver attachment for my drill to remove the actual screen at the bottom where the water drains and the food catches to (in theory) be ground up. Once that top plate with the screen is removed I simply removed the cover to the grinding device. Getting access to these areas showed me the issue: glass pieces, fruit pits/seeds, and all other bits of things accumulated over the years that the grinding mechanism wouldn't get rid of! So I got all the pieces out carefully and then put all the parts back together, cleaning off the "gook" that built up over the years.

Worked like a charm! Good luck!
Heather